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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Esmail reacted to Lester's breaking into their home and holding them at gunpoint?
(a) First with a sense of adventure, then with true fear.
(b) First with fear, then with a sense of adventure.
(c) First with anger, then with fear.
(d) First with fear, then with anger.

2. What effect does the ruby in Behrani's ring have on Lester?
(a) He thinks Behrani is arrogant.
(b) He wants to have the ring.
(c) He thinks Behrani will defeat him.
(d) He thinks Behrani is rich.

3. What does Lester decide to do with the Behranis after he sees that Esmail could have escaped through the window?
(a) Tie them up.
(b) Lock them in the bathroom.
(c) Send them out of the house.
(d) Lock them in the bedroom.

4. Of whom does Kathy remind Behrani?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) His daughter Soraya.
(d) His cousin Jasmeen.

5. Does Kathy feel like a criminal or an innocent victim as she thinks about what has happened while waiting in the hospital?
(a) She feels that both ideas about her are wrong.
(b) She feels that she is a victim, not a criminal.
(c) She feels that she is both of those things.
(d) She feels that she is a criminal, not a victim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lester pray for while he waits in jail?

2. Why does Lester shake his head at his own increasing lack of judgment after waiting at the fish camp for Kathy for half an hour?

3. What does Esmail find the courage to ask Behrani while they are locked in the bathroom?

4. Why is Behrani upset that he has called Lester by his name?

5. Why does Behrani demand to be released from the bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Nadereh told Lester that her husband was "only good," Behrani believed that she had a different meaning than a positive comment on his character. What does Behrani believe Nadereh meant?

2. Why does Kathy feel a sense of unreality while she is in the hospital?

3. How do his fellow officers feel about Lester after he has been arrested?

4. Kathy doesn't shower because she doesn't want to clean up, then put on again the clothes she has stolen. How is this a metaphor for her situation now?

5. Kathy says that she only has one hope now while she's waiting for Lester to return. What does she hope?

6. After Esmail has been shot, the shooting officer looks at Lester. He needs a critical piece of information and Lester doesn't have it, either. What is that piece of information?

7. Who does Lester want to call from jail and what does he plan to say?

8. What is nazr?

9. When Lester describes his feelings during the drive to the county office, he says it is probably the way felons want to feel all the time. How does he say he feels?

10. What is Connie Walsh's planned defense for Kathy?

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